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| 31. | Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson (jeffe.cs.illinois.edu) | |
| 1463 points | 2019 | author jefferickson showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm honestly seriously torn about this. There is a serious tension between pedagogical needs of students in formal classrooms and the pedagogical needs of self-learners.…” | ||
| 32. | Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees (dystroy.org) | |
| 1448 points | 2020 | author dystroy showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the tip. I'll do that. edit: done. Note that broot is far from new and is reliable on linux. I used it daily in the past 10 months. The only thing which…” | ||
| 33. | Console.mihai(); (incompleteness.me) | |
| 1445 points | 2015 | author joewalker showed up | their comment | thread
“I've updated it to add that Mihai died recently.” | ||
| 34. | Is My Blue Your Blue? (ismy.blue) | |
| 1426 points | 2024 | author pminimax showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I added fields so you can specify your first language (relevant link:) and colorblindness. FAQ: * I can't know your monitor's calibration, your ambient light, or your…” | ||
| 35. | JavaScript Temporal is coming (developer.mozilla.org) | |
| 1405 points | 2025 | author bsmth showed up | their comment | thread
“I have to admit I enjoyed your comment. This is because it's mostly reference documentation, so each method of each class has it's own page, for example:” | ||
| 36. | Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registration (thehackerblog.com) | |
| 1404 points | 2017 | author mandatory showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks - glad you liked the post! :)” | ||
| 37. | Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) (chromium.woolyss.com) | |
| 1384 points | 2022 | author pixeldetracking showed up | their comment | thread
“good to see this on HN, raising awareness on the topic I don't know who made the translation and when it was made, but the original article in french () contains more…” | ||
| 38. | An NFC movie library for my kids (simplyexplained.com) | |
| 1384 points | 2024 | author xafke showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“My kids are 3 and 2, and they don't watch TV like adults. They watch a bit of movie, get up, walk around, do something else, come back, and watch a bit of another movie…” | ||
| 39. | They Used To Last 50 Years (recraigslist.com) | |
| 1359 points | 2017 | author roseburg showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“you are absolutely right. Want to see me angry? You should have seen me when I found out my 90 year old neighbor lady is on her second Whirlpool made vertical modular…” | ||
| 40. | CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust (github.com) | |
| 1340 points | 2019 | author theanzelm showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for letting me know, I’ll test the font on more devices and fix it!” | ||
| 41. | TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] (youtube.com) | |
| 1328 points | 2025 | author dimitropoulos showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“pause on that screen and look at the code displayed on the right (as well as the note at the bottom!) the way to do keyboard inputs is basically exactly what people do…” | ||
| 42. | “It's The Future” (circleci.com) | |
| 1323 points | 2016 | author pbiggar showed up | their comment | thread
“To answer some questions: yes this is obviously poking fun at Docker, but I also do really believe in Docker. See the follow-up for more on that: In a self-indulgent…” | ||
| 43. | Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings (lapcatsoftware.com) | |
| 1320 points | 2020 | author _qulr showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“A few notes: 1. I tested with many different sites and configurations in order to narrow down the issue. The screenshots in the article are just a small sample of my…” | ||
| 44. | Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web (neustadt.fr) | |
| 1307 points | 2017 | author livatlantis showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Is it? It works on my end. Could you tell me which OS/Safari version you're using? Thanks.” | ||
| 45. | Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams (github.com) | |
| 1307 points | 2020 | author oskarsv showed up | their comment | thread
“This is one of five similar reports for MS Teams. Even outside RCE, just consider the impact of access to SSO tokens and wormability :)” | ||
| 46. | Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything (sergey.fyi) | |
| 1303 points | 2025 | author serjester showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“measuring accuracy in table parsing is surprisingly challenging. Subtle, almost imperceptible differences in how a table is parsed may not affect the reader's…” | ||
| 47. | Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake (defaultnamehere.tumblr.com) | |
| 1302 points | 2016 | author defaultnamehere showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I have no idea what the Facebook apps (Messenger and the Facebook app) do in the background. It's easy to test that, but I didn't because #yoloswag” | ||
| 48. | Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering (surma.dev) | |
| 1290 points | 2021 | author dassurma showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I don’t think many people have researched or optimized on this, but I also work on, and from that experience I know that dithering makes compression _worse_ most of the…” | ||
| 49. | A receipt printer cured my procrastination (laurieherault.com) | |
| 1255 points | 2025 | author laurieherault showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“It’s my first article. I’m a bit nervous but excited to get your feedback. If you deal with procrastination too, I hope this method helps you like it helped me.” | ||
| 50. | Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, has died (theregister.com) | |
| 1252 points | 2022 | author lproven showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the article under discussion here and I did link that paper at the end of it, FWIW.” | ||
| 51. | Startup idea checklist (defmacro.org) | |
| 1251 points | 2019 | author coffeemug showed up | their comment | thread
“After rereading this (I haven't looked at the list for months), I agree. It should be "who are the users? -> what is the essence of their dissatisfaction? -> what are…” | ||
| 52. | Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused (twitter.com) | |
| 1236 points | 2019 | author atomicthumbs showed up | their comment | thread
“for what it's worth. All my own audio equipment was recycled at some point.” | ||
| 53. | Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript (github.com) | |
| 1204 points | 2024 | author satanacchio showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi I'm the author of the PR, AMA” | ||
| 54. | Apple's Software Quality Crisis (eliseomartelli.it) | |
| 1196 points | 2025 | author eliseomartelli showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“incredible how much more demanding applications (at least on paper) don't suffer from the same pitfalls of Apple's native apps. By the looks of it, it's a widespread…” | ||
| 55. | Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced (tls.ulfheim.net) | |
| 1185 points | 2018 | author syncsynchalt showed up | their comment | thread
“I was going to publish this today but it leaked out ahead of time. Enjoy! EDIT: I'm putting a CDN in place.” | ||
| 56. | I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens (sethpurcell.com) | |
| 1185 points | 2025 | author sethpurcell showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks for your comment. I'm really sad to hear that everyone was let go; as I said, I loved TFI like nothing else when I was a kid. I completely understand the…” | ||
| 57. | This word does not exist (thisworddoesnotexist.com) | |
| 1184 points | 2021 | author turtlesoup showed up | their comment | thread
“Funny to see this at the top of HN today -- happy to answer any questions (source code is here) Shameless plug for my other "this x does not exist": This Fucked Up Homer…” | ||
| 58. | CRDTs are the future (josephg.com) | |
| 1181 points | 2020 | author josephg showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I love this comment. Yes; but not yet. Right now if you want you can use yjs or sharedb. But the APIs aren't spectacular. Eventually I want these things integrated into…” | ||
| 59. | Is something bugging you? (antithesis.com) | |
| 1179 points | 2024 | author wwilson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry it was vague, but there's only so much detail you can go into in a blog post aimed at general audiences. Our documentation () has a lot more info. Here's my…” | ||
| 60. | Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust (blog.jwilm.io) | |
| 1170 points | 2017 | author jwilm showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and I'm here to answer any questions!” | ||
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